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Senior Web UI EngineerSilkRoad Technology

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Tracking Code
303135-499
Job Description
If you'd enjoy working on a cutting-edge social enterprise solution, while being able to take full advantage of your extensive web User Interface development experience, you have to see what we're all about! A great opportunity, enabling lots of creativity, with a great company to work for.

At SilkRoad, it's all about the employees! It's all about the flexibility. It's all about the extras. It's all about growth (yours and ours). It's all about opportunity...to build your career with a leader. At SilkRoad, you can have a major impact on our clients, you can have an important part in our success, and you'll work in a great environment that's loaded with talented professionals. And this is your opportunity to join us. It's all here! Check us out!

The Senior Web UI Engineer will collaboratively design, implement, and support innovative user interface technology for a new social enterprise solution that combines the features of social networking, collaboration, and talent management while measuring the influence each contributor has within an organization.

This newly created position is primarily responsible for translating UI mockups and design schemes to functioning markup and code. You will need to work outside of the box by contributing to discussions and decisions on design & usability; provide accurate forecasts of work effort and to clearly communicate implementation risks and design trade-offs to peers and team members; participate as part of an agile team in the design and development of cutting-edge web applications, using technologies such as HTML5, Javascript / jQuery, and other popular thin-client development techniques.

This position offers the opportunity to work from home for part of the week.

Some specific responsibilities include:
Works with development team and stakeholders to create modern web UI for Silkroad applications.
Generates HTML, CSS, javascript, etc. based on visual designs created by the design team as well as creating their own design elements.
Provides cutting-edge design and development expertise that enables Silkroad UI on a wide variety of browsers and devices, including mobile devices.
Creates and maintains design artifacts and documents.
Uses proper change control and versioning techniques.
Participates in performance testing, optimization, and tuning to meet scalability demands.
Helps resolve difficult technical issues.
Creates and expands enterprise architectural standards.

SilkRoad technology, inc. provides software as a service (SaaS) solutions that significantly improve the talent within its more than 1000 customers across the globe. Through SilkRoad?s Life Suite, an integrated talent management solution, companies are able to hire better employees, identify high and low performers, drive a pay-for-performance culture and improve employee tenure. Our Life Suite solution set includes OpenHire, for recruiting management, RedCarpet for employee onboarding and life events, WingSpan for flexible employee performance management, GreenLight for learning management, Point and Eprise for Social Collaboration and Content, and HeartBeat for core Human Resources.

Founded in 2003, SilkRoad technology is a privately held company based in Chicago, IL, with offices around the globe. Our customers include a diverse set of industry leaders such as Allianz, Priceline.com and Crate and Barrel. Silkroad was voted as one of the "Best Places to Work in 2012".

Required Skills
Expert in HTML and CSS development (HTML5 and CSS3 strongly preferred) with the ability to architect an HTML and CSS code base that will look great in modern browsers and degrade gracefully down to IE7.
Ability to skin jQuery UI components to match a fully customized design
Ability to see ?the big picture? in architecting a set of HTML and CSS that can be shared across teams and products, and the ability to clearly communicate this vision to other teams
Be a self-starter that is results driven and displays initiative
Expert in translating Photoshop files into HTML & CSS
Ability to create assets in Photoshop (icons, background images, etc.)

Preferable:

Raphael.js and SVG graphics and animation; basic knowledge of geometry
jQuery, JavaScript, and JSON
Familiar with UI data integration patterns, particularly AJAX and REST
Working with a source control system (Perforce preferred)
Working with an issue tracking system (Jira preferred)
Desire to learn server-side technologies (MVC.NET, SQL Server, etc.)
Ability to quickly build out prototypes for acceptance testing
Required Experience
5+ years of UI development experience working with customer-focused, web based enterprise applications
A strong web development background with a heavy focus on Responsive Design concepts
Experience working with Content Management Systems
Job Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Position Type
Full-Time/Regular